On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Brian Jepson wrote:
> Richard,
>
> I was wondering if you had considered the possibility of extending
> binfmt_misc to work with a persistent interpreter. For example, instead
> of executing the java executable each time someone runs a java program,
> binfmt_misc would start a Java VM once, and then load the specified class
> within a thread in that VM. Essentially, there would be one Java VM
> running on a given server, and all Java processes would run within that
> VM.
>
> This approach should work for any VM that supports threading (Java, Perl),
> and the performance benefits would be fantastic. Eventually, some sort of
> load-balancing scheme could be devised, and VMs running on the same
> network could effectively provide clustering capabilities.
>
> Have you given any thought to how binfmt_misc could support this sort of
> thing, or has anyone else raised this issue? I might be interested in
> working on this, depending on how much time I have, but I would not want
> to duplicate the effort, if anyone is already doing this.
I have not even thought about that, because (initially) I wanted to
keep it as simple as possible. To make it work you have to run the
VMs as a daemon-like program that could be signalled from the kernel,
or little more complicated and uglier be notified by SYSV-messages.
Hmm... the more I think about it - it would be necessary to make
a new syscall (like request_binary_to_run) that gets the command
and args of the program/script to be executed. The daemon/VM would
call this after beeing signalled by the kernel.
This would be clean, I think (I like it - but I wont use it...).
So If you need it and think it would be really worth the effort,
you could do it like this.
Richard.
PS: forwarded to linux-kernel, if anybody has done such a think or
thinks in an other way of it.
> Thanks,
>
> Brian Jepson * (bjepson@ids.net) * http://users.ids.net/~bjepson
> Choosy mothers choose to chew Chew-Z
>
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